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Devices Supported by Tivoli Storage Manager

A list of supported storage devices is available on the Tivoli Storage Manager Web site at the following address:

http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/tivolimain.html

Tivoli Storage Manager supports a wide range of manual devices and automated library devices:

Tape Devices
Tivoli Storage Manager supports the manual and automated tape devices listed at the Tivoli Storage Manager Web site.
Note:
Due to changes in the device support for version 5.1, the Precision Bus architecture for attaching SCSI tape devices on HP systems is no longer supported. This bus is SIO-based and is considered obsolete. In version 5.1, device support for buses based on SIO was replaced with support for buses based on WSIO. If your system uses buses based on SIO, do not install or migrate to Tivoli Storage Manager Version 5.1.

The HSC bus is still supported. To use the functions of version 5.1, you must migrate your hardware to current hardware that is based on WSIO, such as the PCI bus or the HSC bus. Questions about these bus architectures should be directed to Hewlett-Packard.

Disk Devices
Tivoli Storage Manager supports the disk devices listed at the Tivoli Storage Manager Web site.

Optical Disk Devices
Tivoli Storage Manager now supports the manual and automated optical disk devices listed at the Tivoli Storage Manager Web site.

Other Removable File Devices
Tivoli Storage Manager supports the removable media devices (such as optical drives, CD-ROM devices, and Iomega Zip and Jaz drives) listed at the Tivoli Storage Manager Web site.

Storage Area Network (SAN) Devices
Tivoli Storage Manager supports devices in a storage area network (SAN) environment, but the devices must be supported by the Tivoli Storage Manager device driver. See the Tivoli Storage Manager Web site for information about supported Fibre Channel hardware and configurations.


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